Buckle.



No. 782,423. PATENTED FEB. 14, 1905.

' G.SHOENBBRGBR.

BUCKLE.`

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 7. 1904.

Attorn'ega.

UNITED STATES Patented February 14, 1905.

PATENTI OFFICE.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N0. 782,423, dated February 14, 1905.

Application led January 7, 1904. Serial No. 188,119.-

To all 7,071,071@ it mfcty con/cern:

`kledpand particularly on the inside of the trace where thetongue-hole of the buckle passes through the trace.

The object is, further, to enable one to un-- buckle the trace while there is strain on it without having to .slacken the trace, to do away with the cutting of the slot in the hametug for the insertion therein of the tongue of an ordinary buckle, which operates to weaken the same at this point, where it should be strongest, to prevent bending the trace when adjusting it as to length, it being unnecessary to remove the trace from the loop when it is being adjusted.

I attain these 'objects by means of thedevice described herein and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my buckle in its open position secured to the hame-tug. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the buckle in its closed position. Fig. 3 is a transverse View taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 2 looking in the directions indicated by the arrow-heads thereon. s

Fig. 4 is a side view of my buckle in place on the haine-tug buckled to the tug of the harness.

In the drawings, A is the loop of the buckle, and B is the tongue-plate thereof` having mounted thereon the tongue or stud O. .This tongue hasta longitudinal slot C cut centrally therein from its outer end'to a point near the base thereof. It has at its outward end projecting shoulders O, the object of which is to hold the tongue in frictional engagement with the walls of the hole rAin the loop A when the buckle is in its closed position, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4. By means of the longitudinal slot in the upright tongue 0r stud a yielding engagementis afforded between the pivoted loop A and the stud O, which will permit the loop to be removed from the stud byaiirm outward pull of the loop from the tongue-plate, the device being arranged so that one hand can grasp the loop Aand the other the plate B to throw the buckle into the open position, as shown in Fig. l, from .its position as shown in Fig. 4.

I attach my buckle to the llame-tug F in the ordinary manner and employ the ordinary leather loop D, through which the harnesstug E is passed when the same is in place and buckled.

Having described my invention,` what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a buckle the combination of a loop A having a hole in the free end thereof to engage' a stud on a tongue-plate; a tongue-plate pivotally secured to the loop; astud or tongue projecting upwardly from the tongue-plate, having a central longitudinal slit therein and also having shoulders thereon to engage the walls of the hole in the free end of the loop. Y 2. A buckle of the character herein described, comprising a tongue-plate; a projecting tongue thereon having-a longitudinal slit therein; shoulders on said tongue adapted to frictionally engage the walls of the hole in the free end of the loop; a swinging loop pivoted on said tongue-plateand having a hole in the free end thereof for the reception and engagement of the stud or tongue on the ton gue-plate substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The combination in a buckle of the character herein described, of the tongue-plate B having projecting outwardly therefrom the `stud O provided with a central longitudinal slit O therein and having projecting shoulders O on each side of theouter end of the stud; a loop A pivotally secured to said tongueplate and having in the outer free end thereof GEORGE sHoENRERGER.

i Witnesses:

HENRY T. HAZARD, G. E. HARPHAM. 

